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Wednesday, April 162nd Half News

We have now entered the second half of the season. For Majors, scores and standings will now be kept for the purposes of seeding the season ending league Tournament of Champions (TOC). Every team will make the TOC, but the standings will determine the seedings. Minors also has a TOC, but the seedings will be a random draw so no standings will be kept. Majors standings can be viewed by clicking on the Standings link or Majors Standings.For scores of individual games, go to Majors Scores.

TOC is Here!

Majors and Minors will began their season ending Tournament of Champions (TOC) on Tuesday May 27th. The winner of each tournament will advance to the District 33 TOC tournament. Last year, the Minors Cubs won the District tournament. The Mets have wrapped up the #1 seed in Majors, while the Indians will be #2. Pirates and Padres will be the #3 and #4 seeds. Standings were kept during the second half of the season for seeding purposed. The Minors will use a pool play format which will guarantee each team at least 3 games.

Some of the TOC rules are different than regular season. Games are 6 innings with no time limit (except darkness for the weeknight games). There will be no run limit per inning in Minors, but there is a 10 run mercy rule after 4 innings. Thus, if a team is leading by 10 runs or more after 4 or 5 innings, it will be declared over.

Below is the schedule for 2008 MTLL Majors TOC. Format is double elimination, so you keep playing until you have two loses. Game 6 is the championship game, but if it is the first loss for the losing team (each team would then have 1 loss), game 7 will be necessary and will be for the title. The championship team will advance to the District 33 team TOC which begins on Monday, June 9th.

Game

Teams

Day

Date

Time

Comment

#1

Mets 13 - Padres 1

Tuesday

5/27

5:00 PM

#1 vs. #4

#2

Indians 6 - Pirates 9

Thursday

5/29

5:00 PM

#2 vs. #3

#3

Mets 3 - Pirates 0

Saturday

5/31

11:00 AM

Winner's Final

#4

Padres 3 - Indians 5 (8 Inn.)

Saturday

5/31

1:30 PM

Padres Eliminated

#5

Pirates 13 - Indians 5

Tuesday

6/3

5:00 PM

Indians Eliminated

#6

Mets 3 - Pirates 9

Thursday

6/5

5:00 PM

Pirates force final game

#7

Mets 7 - Pirates 4

Friday

6/6

5:00 PM

Championship Game

Schedule for 2008 Minors TOC. There will be 2 games for each team of pool play. The pool play results will seed the teams from 1-3 in each pool. Then they will begin a single elimination round. The number 1 seed from each pool will get a bye. #2 from pool A will play #3 from pool B with the winner playing a #1 seed. The championship game will be on closing day, June 7th. The winner advances to the District 33 tournament. The past two years have been bountiful for MTLL Minors TOC teams. In 2006, the MTLL squad was undefeated in pool play, won 2 games in the single elimination rounds and played in the final. They played a close game, but lost for a second place finish. Last year, the Cubs won all the way through to bring home the district flag.